EDO PERIOD (LATE 18TH/EARLY 19TH CENTURY)
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Three Matchlocks
Edo Period (late 18th/early 19th Century)
The first's barrel lightly carved with a dragon and clouds to the muzzle, the barrel lightly pitted, unusually the barrel is fitted with an adjustable rear sight, wood stock and brass fittings; another, the lower part of the octagonal barrel decorated with a cockerel in brass and silver, with a silver inlaid gyoyo mon, wood stock and brass fittings; and the last, the lower part of the octagonal barrel decorated with a karashishi and clouds in brass and copper, garlic shaped muzzle ring, wood stock and brass fittings, the barrel heavily pitted
42.1/8in. (107cm.), calibre 1.8cm., 52.3/8in. (133cm), calibre 1.6cm. and 516in. (131cm.), calibre 1.8cm. respectively
Edo Period (late 18th/early 19th Century)
The first's barrel lightly carved with a dragon and clouds to the muzzle, the barrel lightly pitted, unusually the barrel is fitted with an adjustable rear sight, wood stock and brass fittings; another, the lower part of the octagonal barrel decorated with a cockerel in brass and silver, with a silver inlaid gyoyo mon, wood stock and brass fittings; and the last, the lower part of the octagonal barrel decorated with a karashishi and clouds in brass and copper, garlic shaped muzzle ring, wood stock and brass fittings, the barrel heavily pitted
42.1/8in. (107cm.), calibre 1.8cm., 52.3/8in. (133cm), calibre 1.6cm. and 516in. (131cm.), calibre 1.8cm. respectively